Enrique Flores-Galbis

Born: Cuba

Current Home: Forest Hills, United States of America

Enrique Flores-Galbis, at age nine, was one of 14,000 children who left Cuba in 1961, without their parents, in a mass exodus called Operation Pedro Pan. He and his two older brothers spend months in a refugee camp in southern Florida and this novel is directly inspired by that experience. Enrique is an artist, lecturer, and the author of Raining Sardines.